Net-Zero Transition in the Context of Geopolitical Fragmentation

Join us in person for an exciting discussion on how the net-zero transition is shaping up amid rising geopolitical fragmentation. The conference will explore why existing economic frameworks—often built on assumptions of global trade and exogenous growth unrelated to energy use—fail to account for current rising tensions and the non-linear risks associated with stranded assets, energy costs, and the rate of investment in low-carbon energy.

• Session 1: Understanding the role of energy in economic transitions: lessons from the 1970s to today
• Session 2: The geoeconomic turn of the energy transition: energy security, energy affordability and energy imperialism.
• Session 3: The macrofinancial turn of the energy transition: stranded assets, cost of capital and balance of payment instabilities
• Session 4: Building scenarios for the mid-transition period: what can the models tell us?

Conference Organizing Team:

Transition Macroeconomics Consortium

• Carey W. King (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States (contact : [email protected])
• Matheus Grasselli (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
• Jean-François Mercure (University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom)

French Development Agency

• Etienne Espagne (French International Development Agency)
• Emmanuel Henriet (Expertise France, a division of the French International Development Agency, Senior Research Fellow of the Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin)

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Host or Publisher Energy Institute, UT Austin